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INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC REGULATION SYSTEM FOR ROADS USING
CAR TWO WAY COMMUNICATION

Bestley Joe. S
1
, Vamsi Krishna. P
2

1
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Instrumentation, Sathyabama University, Tamil Nadu, India
2
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Control, Sathyabama University, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract
A Car-2-X communication system using RF technology would demonstrate the usefulness of this technology which would be
applied for, advanced driver assistance increasing road safety by reducing the number of accidents as well as reducing the impact
in case of non-avoidable accidents, increasing traffic efficiency with traffic congestion control resulting in reduced transport time,
fuel consumption and thus contributing to improving the environment, user communications and information services offering
comfort and business applications to driver and passengers.

Keywords: RF technology, 2-X communication system, traffic efficiency, congestion control.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Car2x communication (also known as Vehicle-to-Vehicle
and Vehicle-to Infrastructure communication) is the
exchange of information between traffic participants and the
infrastructure with the goal of enhancing safety and
convenience and optimizing traffic flow. The recent
engineering system for assuring Car2x communication is
known as the intelligent transport System (ITS). The basic
concept of Car2x communication involves sending and
receiving standardized messages over the air interface and
enabling interpretation of the status information they contain
by traffic participants. The ITS station (ITS-S) keeps the
messages up-to date based on the momentary traffic
situation and sends them either periodically or they are
event-driven.

The most important status information is transmitted via the
message types CAM(Cooperative Awareness Message),
SPAT (Signal Phase and Time), DENM (Decentralized
Environmental Notification Message) and TOPO (Topology
Specification). The European Institute for
Telecommunication Standards (ETSI) has already specified
the CAM and DENM messages whereas SPAT and TOPO
are currently handled on a project-by-project basis. This
system gives the intelligent processing units of the receiving
traffic participants, e.g. in a vehicle, the opportunity to
acquire information about the immediately relevant traffic
situation over a broad area and to warn the vehicle driver if
necessary or even intervene in vehicle control.

2. EXISTING SYSTEM
The rapid growth in the vehicle ownership is one of the
measures for economic growth of country. Exploitation of
new trends and technologies requires fast transportation of
all goods alike.

The goal of each one is to reach at destination without
wasting time and money. But the infrastructures provided by
current resources are very limited. So the traffic
management at road is crucial to reduce waiting and
travelling times, save fuel and money.

In current scenario, the low or high traffic information is
offered by only who are affected by that traffic problem for
waiting long time to get signal to move other side.

3. DISADVANTAGES OF EXISTING SYSTEM
1) Waiting too long time for getting the traffic signal.
2) Wastage of fuel.
3) If accidents occur, sharing the information is taking much
amount of time.

4. PROPOSED SYSTEM
The project will implement and demonstrate the following
use cases.

Forward Hazard Warning: If a vehicle detects an incident
such as emergency braking, accident, traffic jam, slippery
road, or construction zone, it adds this information to its
periodically broadcasted Cooperative Awareness Message
which is sent to all vehicles in the close vicinity. Other cars
or motorcycles receives the information and decide either to
warn the driver if the hazardous location is on the route in
front or just to broadcast the information to warn other
vehicles.

Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory: The vehicle
approaches the traffic light that is currently red. Based on
the received traffic light phase schedule, the vehicle
calculates an approaching speed of say, 45 km/h, at which
the vehicle would reach the traffic light at the beginning of
the next green phase. This information is presented to the
driver who can avoid the unnecessary stop. If the vehicle is
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somehow needed to stop, then the traffic light would
automatically switches off the car engine and later switch
ON the ignition once it shows green.

Road Speed Limit Warning: The road speed limit warning
application allows connected vehicles to receive information
that it is approaching a road along with the recommended
speed for the curve. This allows the vehicle to provide a
warning to the driver regarding the road and its
recommended speed. In addition, if the actual speed through
the curve exceeds the recommended speed, the vehicle can
communicate and informs this to the traffic control unit,
where the vehicle number will be displayed. If the driver
drives the vehicle faster than the speed limit ignoring the
warning, the vehicle unit would inform the vehicle details to
the traffic control unit.

Emergency Vehicle Warning: While the vehicles are driving
along the road an emergency vehicle approaches from
behind. This system uses information from the EV to help
the driver on how to clear the road for the emergency
vehicle even when the siren and light bar may not yet be
audible or visible. The driver/rider of the other vehicle will
be advised to stop at the road side to let the EV pass by. If
the driver doesnt slow the vehicle after this warning, the
vehicle details will be automatically transferred to the traffic
control unit.

The project consists of three units running a wireless
network among them. The control and monitoring unit has a
touch screen display and other sensors. Vehicle units have a
compass, a graphics LCD and a warning buzzer.

5. ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM
Safety
Traffic Management
Driver Assistance System
Policing and Enforcement

6. TRAFFIC MODULE
Fig -1: Block Diagram of Traffic Module

Fig -1 represents the block diagram of traffic module. The
power supply is given to the microcontroller used in the
traffic module .The microcontroller starts its process. The
traffic display (Light Emitting Diode) shows the signal and
the signal time variations are displayed in LCD display. The
information is passed from the microcontroller to zigbee
through an interface max232 connected in between
microcontroller and zigbee. The message is being passed to
car which is a head towards the signal. The purpose of two
IR sensors is to measure the traffic density, speed breakers
and the college zones and then the IR sensors sends the
information to microcontroller and the information is
transmitted through the zigbee.

7. CAR 1 AND CAR 2 MODULE
Fig -2: Block Diagram of Car 1 Module

Figure: 2. which represent the block diagram of car1
module. The block diagram shows the working of car1
module. The process is dumped in the microcontroller
through programmer. In car1module the zigbee used for
both transmitting and receiving signal from traffic module
and emergency module. The zigbee is interfaced to the
microcontroller through max232 used as an interface. The
Zigbee receives the signal from traffic module and
transmits signal to car2 module. The vibration sensor used
in this module is to sense when the car gets crashed and
starts to vibrate were the vibration signal is been passed as
the electrical signal through the vibration sensor and the
microcontroller sends the signal to other vehicles. The motor
driver is used for controlling the speed of the vehicle.


Fig -3: Block Diagram of Car 2 Module.

Figure:3 represent the block diagram of car2 module.
The block diagram shows the working of car2 module. The
car2 module consists of microcontroller ,LCD,max232,
Zigbee, and power supply. The car2 module receives the
signal from car1 module, and from the emergency module.
The receiving signal is displayed in the 16*2 LCD display.

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8. EMERGENCY MODULE

Fig -4: Block Diagram of Emergency Module.

Figure: 4. represent the block diagram of emergency
module. The emergency module operates when the power
supply is given to microcontroller. The microcontroller
passes information as signal through zigbee to the vehicles


Fig -5: Picture of Emergency module

9. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
This report shows the complete working of car-2-x
communication systems. The various hardware and software
used in this project is thoroughly seen along with their
working principle. In this paper we have successfully
concluded the zigbee based communication using keil micro
version.

Thus in the end of the process the supervisor could see the
visual output of the process via zigbee and he could in-turn
control the process similarly the head person of the process
could get the output of the process in abnormality condition.
Thus the whole project is been executed successfully and the
desired result of road link car 2-X communication sytems is
obtained.



FUTURE WORK
The present demo car in which was successfully
implemented the 2 way communication to reduce
congestion, traffic density, accidents and emergency
situation can be extended in full real life road situation and
also if we were provided with proper hardware we can fully
automate it.

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